Current games
From Milton Keynes RPG Club
This page is for info on the games we're currently playing/are about to play. You can also see the Proposed games for the next block, or the Games we have played recently.
Block 1: 24th January 2012 to 13th March 2012.
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Nero
(Smallville does HBO's Rome)
AD 65. The mad emperor Nero holds Rome in the grip of terror and debauchery. Rome burnt while he fiddled. People are elevated to the highest positions on his whim, to be cast down just as quickly (and violently). His displays in the arena, the theatre, and the more depraved ones in the Palace have made him a laughing stock with both the patrician and plebian classes.
The Palace and Senate are full of rumour and conspiracy. Nero has already murdered most of his family, including quite a few wives and mistresses, to eliminate rivals. Factions vie for his favour, or seek to deflect his anger, all the while settling rivalries between themselves. Generals demobilised from the recent Parthian war are looking for something to do with their now-redundant legions.
After the fire, he's planning a huge rebuilding project that will reshape Rome in his image. It might be popular with the plebs, but it will bankrupt the Eternal City.
And Senator Piso would like to have a chat...
For tone, I'm after something like HBO's Rome series, with lots of sex to go with the violence, and the fate of empires dependent on the personal relationships of a small number of people. It's also going to be a purely 'mundane' game, with no superpowers, magic, or similar. See the Nero page for more information.
- System: Smallville
- Proposed by: Neil Smith
- Players: 4-5
The Prophecy of Endless Night
Orcs have raided the village of Skeltha, just three days ride to the North. The meagre crops were burnt, the cattle slaughtered, the buildings razed to the ground and the men and women massacred. The children ... are missing. Why is the jarl, Edric, so reluctant to send men to investigate? What possible use are children to an Orc raiding party? Who is the Albino Mage? What is the prophecy of Endless Night, and why is it death to speak it?
Set on Eltnjevat, a vast and largely unexplored island of snow and ice and volcanic fire created in the last great Dragon War, this is a classic tale of dark magic, fell creatures, and ancient evil of the vilest kind.
- System: Pathfinder Box
- Proposed by: Martin Goodson
- Players: 3-6
Final Flight/Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37
I'm offering two Cthulhu adventures not connected in any way Just they are longer than one or two night adventures.
So play Final flight frst then Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37
Final Flight
Welcome aboard Pan Caribbean Airways Flight 101.
A routine flight...
Thirty seconds of terror!
Now the passengers and crew of Flight 101 are on their own, trapped in the green hell of the jungles of South America. Was their Crash just an unfortunate accident? Are they truly alone in the jungle? There are worse things that the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Like a titanic green beast, the merciless, unforgiving rainforest harbors parasites, diseases, poisons and thousands of terrifying animals looking to make a meal of the weak and the lost. The passengers will have to work quickly and decisively if they have any hope that this will not be their FINAL FLIGHT!
Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37
Life for the average soldier in the Red Army is never easy, but it is a better life than for most Russians in the late-winter of 1933. You have a bed, steady rations, and place of security in a dangerous time There are duties to perform, yes, and sometimes they are hazardous. They are the price you pay for what you have But now there are new orders — to repair the telegraph lines at a distant outpost. It seems like a simple task, but you have doubts. Why not wait until the roads have cleared? Why send the Army to do what prisoners should do, even if at gunpoint? Why haven’t our comrades at the station repaired the line themselves? Why are the Telegraph Agency men wearing pistols?
There are horrors enough in the Worker’s Paradise. The new collective farms have failed to provide as was promised, and famine stalks the land. A knock at the door might mean death in the gulag. In distant Moscow there are rumors of a coming purge of enemies, both real and imagined.
And yet . . . there are worse things to be found at Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37.
- System: Cthulhu
- Proposed by: Matt Nott
- Players: 3-6
This Is Not My War - Amber DRPG
You often wonder what it would be like to wake up with super-human powers; what it would be like to become as powerful as the people on TV and in Films. You then wonder about the saying 'Be Careful What You Wish For', and how ironic the entire situation is. Over the last few months you have been plagued by dreams, a strange eerie voice calling to you, asking you to come, summoning you... and that was only the start of it.
The players are drawn into a struggle between two ultimate powers of a universe where Earth is just a sidenote. They find themselves in possession of a strange new power- or perhaps something they have had all along? Regardless, they are quickly swept into a conflict that could mean the end of the universe as they don't know it. Can you fight? Will you fight? It wasn't your war, but it is now.
Using the Amber DRPG system, players will be able to harness powers both physical, magical and psychic in nature. The campaign has been designed for people who have no knowledge of the Amber characters, system, or universe.
- System: Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game
- Proposed by: Anthony Edmonds
- Players: 3-5
